Articles Posted September 2011
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Shadia Mansour – Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh (Ft. M1 of Dead Prez)
The universal language of hip-hop knows many tongues. One of them is spoken by British Palestinian female emcee Shadia Mansour in her new video “Al Kufiyyeh 3arabeyyeh” (The Kufiyeh is Arab) Featuring M1 of Dead Prez.
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MED Declares His Next Album CLASSIC
MED feat. Hodgy Beats – Outta Control MED has been a staple of the Stones Throw stable since its early days. Appearing on many releases from his brethren (like Madvillain’s Madvillainy, Madlib’s Shades of Blue,…
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Happy Labor Day: 8 Songs for Workers
Every week day, 9-5 gruntsmen drag themselves out of bed to do the dirty work of corporate slugs. Somewhere along the line, we as a society smartened up and gave ourselves Labor Day in honor of that dirty work. In honor of the laziest day of our calendar year (rightfully so), TRU has compiled a list of eight workers anthems; one for each hour of the work day.
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Buzzing: C-PO
New rappers make promises they can’t keep. C-PO, 24, isn’t making any–the NJ native makes you pay attention in other ways, namely his energy, personality, ear-grabbing delivery, and robust production. The young upstart has also…
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‘Dubstep’ And ‘Grime’ Are Now In The Dictionary
Rap’s British cousins ‘Dubstep’ and ‘Grime’ have been added to the Chambers dictionary. Grime is defined as “a style of popular music combining elements of dancehall and hip-hop” while dubstep is described as “type of electronic popular dance music developed from drum and bass.”
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J. Cole Still Grinding On Any Given Sunday
Part 5 of J. Cole’s Any Given Sunday previews/leftovers/whatever he feels like series dropped on the appropriate day, even though he already blessed the interwebs with his new Trey Songz featuring single ‘Can’t Get Enough’ on Friday night. You won’t catch me saying the guy doesn’t do anything for his fans. Still loving the Any Given Sunday typography, by the way.
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Google’s Freddy Mercury Doodle Hits the Web
Happy labor day to all US citizens! For the rest of the world it’s just another monday, unless you’re a fan of Queen frontman Freddy Mercury who would’ve become 65 years old today. At least…
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Game Calls for Gay Rappers to Come Out
If I was a guy who was once rocking a butterfly tattoo on his face I’d avoid calling out other rappers as closet homosexuals but Game at least avoided the namedropping this time. Despite it’s…
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Lupe Fiasco Calls out The Throne, Lil Wayne, Drake. Sorta.
While freestyling at UIC, Lupe name-checked some important dudes just for the fuck of it. “When you’re done Watching The Throne, turn around and watch me, when you’re done with the Carter 4 come back…
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T.I. Outta The Pen, T.I. Into The Pen
According to CNN Clifford is already back on his way to serve out the rest of his sentence while he was released to a halfway house earlier. T.I. has employed a lot of luck and…
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The Black Keys & Damon Dash Reunite For ‘Blakroc 2′
Hard to believe it was as far back as 2009 that The Black Keys (executive produced by Damon Dash) dropped their awesome and surprisingly organic sounding hip-hop/bluesrock hybrid ‘Blakroc’ through Dame’s DD172. Talib Kweli, U…
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Flud Watches Presents: Beats Per Minute Video Series with DJ Spinna
Another week, another episode in this inisightful series as DJ Spinna takes us through the history of the equipment he used from his 8-track recordings in the 80s to working with his group Jigmastas and…
